The customised software package includes GMG's ColorServer in addition to a set of preconfigured hot folders and ready-to-use colour profiles.

According to GMG, its hot folder technology guarantees users "the best possible production reliability and colour accuracy", helping avoid errorst.

Paul Willems, chief executive of GMG, said: "We are very pleased that HP, as the major industry player in the digital and wide-format printing business, considers our colour management technology as the solution of choice.

"We are convinced that our common customers will greatly benefit from color-managed workflows, helping them to meet their customers' expectations for high colour accuracy and colours that obtain a visual match with offset printing which very often is taken as the reference standard to measure the print quality."

The GMG software for HP Scitex printers will be available in mid-March. In addition, the company has being awarded HP graphics solutions partner gold level status for 2011.

HP Scitex large-format printing division vice president and general manager Yariv Avisar, added: "After in-depth testing, HP concluded that the GMG ColorServer software is an ideal solution to meet these needs for our customers."